x86/cpu: Remove "noexec"

It doesn't make any sense to disable non-executable mappings -
security-wise or else.

So rip out that switch and move the remaining code into setup.c and
delete setup_nx.c

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127115626.14179-6-bp@alien8.de

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 62 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c b/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c
deleted file mode 100644
index ed5667f5169f..000000000000
--- a/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-#include <linux/spinlock.h>
-#include <linux/errno.h>
-#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/pgtable.h>
-
-#include <asm/proto.h>
-#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
-
-static int disable_nx;
-
-/*
- * noexec = on|off
- *
- * Control non-executable mappings for processes.
- *
- * on      Enable
- * off     Disable
- */
-static int __init noexec_setup(char *str)
-{
-	if (!str)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	if (!strncmp(str, "on", 2)) {
-		disable_nx = 0;
-	} else if (!strncmp(str, "off", 3)) {
-		disable_nx = 1;
-	}
-	x86_configure_nx();
-	return 0;
-}
-early_param("noexec", noexec_setup);
-
-void x86_configure_nx(void)
-{
-	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX) && !disable_nx)
-		__supported_pte_mask |= _PAGE_NX;
-	else
-		__supported_pte_mask &= ~_PAGE_NX;
-}
-
-void __init x86_report_nx(void)
-{
-	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX)) {
-		printk(KERN_NOTICE "Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection "
-		       "missing in CPU!\n");
-	} else {
-#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE)
-		if (disable_nx) {
-			printk(KERN_INFO "NX (Execute Disable) protection: "
-			       "disabled by kernel command line option\n");
-		} else {
-			printk(KERN_INFO "NX (Execute Disable) protection: "
-			       "active\n");
-		}
-#else
-		/* 32bit non-PAE kernel, NX cannot be used */
-		printk(KERN_NOTICE "Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection "
-		       "cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel!\n");
-#endif
-	}
-}